Hardware Team Lead

  • JAM Recruitment Ltd
  • Oct 16, 2025
Contractor Government

Job Description

As a Hardware Team Leader, you will lead a team of highly skilled and experienced hardware engineers responsible for the support to our production programs within products such as Helmet Mounted & Head-Up Displays, Mission Computers, Flight Controls, Active Inceptors and other associated safety critical technology

Core Duties

  • Managerial and technical leadership of an electronics design team
  • Work package management; cost, schedule, risk & opportunities
  • Ensuring the engineering team is supporting the production program demand
  • Providing technical governance and ensuring adherence to company processes
  • Leading cost & performance trade-offs

Essential

Able to demonstrate high performance and achievement in leadership and management of engineering teams through a full product development lifecycle

  • Proven experience / knowledge of cost and planning management tools
  • Proven experience of optimising solutions and minimising impacts from dependencies
  • Experience of design and identifying improvements to working practices and team skill development
  • Proven understanding of product design and work package control
  • Root cause and target areas of improvement , focusing on failure reduction and MDBF
  • Knowledge of supporting a production program

Desirable

  • Experience of PLD / FPGA design
  • Requirements management tools, e.g. DOORS
  • Work-package management tools, eg. MSP, JIRA, etc.